Sameera Rajab is everything in person that you wouldn’t expect from an official government spokesperson in a Gulf country: she’s a woman, a mother of three girls, a Shiite, and the first cousin of Nabeel Rajab, one of the main opposition leaders against the system that she represents.
"He is my cousin from my mother’s and father’s side; that is very close," she says.
The last few days have been among the most challenging for Rajab. This week, in a PR nightmare for the Bahraini government, an American citizen who had worked officially as an early childhood teacher in Bahrain was caught working illegally as a journalist for outlets that belong to Hezbollah, which is considered a terrorist organization by the state. Security authorities said they had also found a Hezbollah flag hanging in the woman’s apartment. She was asked to leave the country.
We invite you to read the full article published August 19, 2013
Sameera Rajab is everything in person that you wouldn’t expect from an official government spokesperson in a Gulf country: she’s a woman, a mother of three girls, a Shiite, and the first cousin of Nabeel Rajab, one of the main opposition leaders against the system that she represents.
"He is my cousin from my mother’s and father’s side; that is very close," she says.
The last few days have been among the most challenging for Rajab. This week, in a PR nightmare for the Bahraini government, an American citizen who had worked officially as an early childhood teacher in Bahrain was caught working illegally as a journalist for outlets that belong to Hezbollah, which is considered a terrorist organization by the state. Security authorities said they had also found a Hezbollah flag hanging in the woman’s apartment. She was asked to leave the country.
We invite you to read the full article published August 19, 2013